How many more students take the SAT than the ACT?

Test Preparation
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<p>I read on ACT.org that the number of students who take the ACT just recently broke a million. Isn't that a miniscule amount compared to the amount of students taking the SAT? What are the exact numbers or ratio?</p>

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<p>All I know is that the SAT is dominant on the coasts, and the ACT is more prevalent in the Midwest/South.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/articles/brief/cbtest_brief.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/articles/brief/cbtest_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>More graduating seniors take the SAT than the ACT (1.5 million vs. 1.2 million last year), but the latter test continues to gain popularity. The SAT stresses logic and reasoning skills, but the ACT is closer to the high school curriculum.</p>

<p>SAT is 25% more popular; which in a sense it not that much.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/National2007.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.act.org/news/data/07/pdf/National2007.pdf&lt;/a> </p>

<p><a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/composite_CR_M_W_percentile_ranks.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/highered/ra/sat/composite_CR_M_W_percentile_ranks.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Neither organization actually publishes number of test-takers per year. What they do publish is number of high school graduating seniors for each particular graduating year who took the test (any time between sophomore and senior year and if a student took the particular test more than once he is only counted once). For the high school graduating class of 2007, 1.3 million took the ACT and 1.49 million the SAT. ACT "broke a million" in those stats about a decade ago, not "recently."</p>